Libya has a new leader today with the election of a university academic as the country's interim prime minister.

Abdurrahim al-Keib replaces the somewhat divisive Mahmoud Jibril, and has immediately vowed to make human rights his priority.

The new prime minister has the job ahead of him organising elections for a National Congress within eight months and multi-party elections in 2013.

However, one of his first tasks will be dealing with international concerns about Libya's missing shoulder-fired missiles.

Mr Keib's election has come on the same day that NATO officially ended its air campaign, which played a major role in ousting Moamar Gaddafi.With the former dictator dead and his regime now banished, the people of Libya are getting a clear message from the West: it is time for the new leadership to make its own mark and for the country to build its own defences.

We guarantee that we're after building a nation, a nation that respects human rights and does not permit abuse of human rights.

Abdurrahim al-Keib

"A significant threat against civilian population doesn't exist any longer; this is a reason why we can now bring Operation Unified Protector to a close," said NATO's secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

"We have fulfilled the United Nations mandate; we have prevented a massacre on the Libyan people; we have saved countless lives - a great success."

For seven months, NATO enforced a no-fly zone over Libya while member-states helped arm the rebels.

Now the organisation wants to make sure that the weapons tap is turned off so a new peaceful Libya can emerge.

"From now on it will be up to the individual member states of the United Nations to enforce the arms embargo," Mr Rasmussen said.

"All countries, including Libya's neighbours, have an obligation to enforce the arms embargo.